Spiked heavy shield doesnt give ac bonus?

[Fistimus Maximus]

Is that correct? if so why ever pick it out a weapon if you are duelwielding?

[AzureTheGamerKobold]

it should give an AC bonus i dont know why its not...

[Fistimus Maximus]

yeah tested it, its not giving a bonus

[Naked Granny]

Originally posted by Fistimus Maximus:

yeah tested it, its not giving a bonus

It's a Shield-typed bonus. Do you have any other kind of shield bonus active - like a Shield spell?

[Fistimus Maximus]

no like I said I swapped between a normal shield and spiked to see. Can confirm its not working right atm

[Fistimus Maximus]

Also mounted shield isnt being added to my mounts ac aswell.

[Mr Fred]

My slayer has been using the heavy spiked shield that does an extra 2d6 holy dmg on shield bashing all along and it always gave its ac properly. Sound like people missing the improved shield bash feat and blaming it on the game.

Edit : just retested and it still work just as fine as it did before the patch.

[Fistimus Maximus]

Dont know what to say, perhaps because im mounted but doesnt seem to give the bonus but switched between shields to test

[Fistimus Maximus]

getting patch atm and will retest

[RiseAgain]

I found that really weird too. If I'm not mistaken, in the original D&D 3.5 ruleset spiked shields also gave the wearer an AC bonus.

It's bizarre to see that characters like Seelah can't use a spiked shield properly because the game treats it as a weapon, even though she uses a sword and shield all the time.

[Fistimus Maximus]

Yeah first spiked ive come across called masterwork spiked heavy shield doesnt even mention bonus to ac in its description...

[Cutlass Jack]

For some reason they made spiked shields actual weapons instead of shield. So you can actually dual wield a shield in each hand, (funny!) and they provide no defensive bonus.

Because they're weapons, not shields, you probably don't need any of the shield bashing feats, and they wouldn't work with them if you had them.

[Velamont]

Originally posted by Fistimus Maximus:

Yeah first spiked ive come across called masterwork spiked heavy shield doesnt even mention bonus to ac in its description...

Soooo... This happens only to one specific shield. Later you would find spiked shields with AC bonus.

[Black Hammer]

Note that the shield bonus does not stack with itself, so equipping two shields shouldn't double your shield bonus.

[Fistimus Maximus]

Originally posted by Velamont:

Originally posted by Fistimus Maximus:

Yeah first spiked ive come across called masterwork spiked heavy shield doesnt even mention bonus to ac in its description...

Soooo... This happens only to one specific shield. Later you would find spiked shields with AC bonus.

The normal spiked shield doesnt give ac either, So you are saying their will be ones later that give ac. Such a strange choice as im pretty certain pnp they do give bonus?

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

Note that the shield bonus does not stack with itself, so equipping two shields shouldn't double your shield bonus.

Well two time zero is still zero. :D